A decent number of sparrows, about 80 roughly, nervously hung around and fed upon the Peninsula meadow near the sumacs. Mostly it were White-throated and Chipping but harboring a lone WHITE-CROWNED.
However it was the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW seen quite well perched on the "point" Sumac, seen only 10 feet away by Mary. Below along grassy edges, later when I arrived, an impressive number of close-knit SWAMP SPARROWS hanging close to the Sumacs. Throughout the time, the sparrows were quite skittish and wary.
A really cool moment though as we saw the sparrow flock take off for nearby trees, we watched an almost ground hugging immature RED-TAILED HAWK fly through, carrying a dead rat in its talons. Now..how cool is that ?
Hilights
--CLAY-COLORED, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS reported at the Peninsula Sumacs grove,lawn side by Mary Eyster ( 3 pm)
--hen RING-NECKED DUCK on the Upper Pool
--MERLIN perched on American Sycamore at southwest corner of the Ballfields
List Observers Pdorosh,MEyster,PMalek
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 11/5/10
Number of species: 27
all Peninsula meadow (or Lake) unless otherwise noted
Mute Swan X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X
Ruddy Duck X
Double-crested Cormorant X
Cooper's Hawk 1 --MEyster
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot X
Herring Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Lily Pool
Hairy Woodpecker 1 Lily Pool
Eastern Phoebe 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Lily Pool
Hermit Thrush 5
European Starling X
Chipping Sparrow 20
Clay-colored Sparrow 1 MEyster , bird seen perched on sumac
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 8
White-throated Sparrow 45
White-crowned Sparrow 1 juvenile
Dark-eyed Junco X
Northern Cardinal 1
American Goldfinch 7 above Binnen Falls
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
